All Property articles – Page 293
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OpinionGrocers to target smaller footprint stores for growth
With 2009 annual results flooding in, the overriding opinion of last year is that it was one when retailers cut back on expenditure and scaled back store openings. The outlook now is for conservative store growth through smaller footprint stores.
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NewsSuperGroup to expand and launch marketing campaign after IPO
SuperGroup will use the £125m the expected float will raise to open 20 stores and launch a marketing campaign, founder Julian Dunkerton said.
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NewsShop vacancies on the rise
Shop vacancies rose in the three months to January 31, with more than one in ten shops on the high street lying empty.
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NewsVero Moda and Jack & Jones to open on Oxford Street
Danish fashion chains Jack & Jones and Vero Moda will open a new dual fascia shop on Oxford Street.
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News99p Stores to build stores empire as it targets turnover of £1bn
99p Stores is gunning to open more than 200 stores by 2014, taking its store count to 350, and is targeting turnover of £1bn by 2016.
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OpinionDreaded needs test rears its head again
Yes, it’s election season and the Tories are going for the populist planning vote with their new Open Source Planning green paper.
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Heal’s in talks to shutter ailing Manchester store
Upmarket furniture retailer Heal’s is in negotiations with the landlord of its Manchester store to exit the site, after disappointing sales and a decision to focus more on its online arm.
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Hotel Chocolat outlines growth plan
Hotel Chocolat is to open between 10 and 15 stores this year, after reporting a strong start to the year with like-for-like sales up 14% in January.
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AnalysisMédiacité: Taking the Cité by storm
Belgium’s third largest city has something to shout about with its striking Médiacité shopping centre, and British retailers are among its most prominent early tenants. John Ryan reports
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Prudential renews monthly rents offer
Prupim, the property investment arm of Prudential, has extended its offer to most UK retailers to pay monthly rather than quarterly rent payments on its existing leases.
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RWC2010: Focus chief Bill Grimsey defends CVAs
Focus chief executive Bill Grimsey has defended Company Voluntary Arrangements in a presentation at the Retail Week Conference.
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RWC2010: Retailers call for landlords to contribute to BIDs
Retailers have called for landlords to contribute to Business Improvement Districts, a key plank of Retail Week manifesto for the High Street.
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OpinionA sensible Game
Game’s decision to close a total of 43 stores and concessions is the right move for a difficult market.
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NewsLiberty considers freehold sale of iconic flagship store
Liberty has confirmed that investors are circling the luxury department store’s iconic Tudor-style building to lease it back to the company.
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NewsBRC urges Budget public spending cuts
The Government should cut public spending rather than increase taxes in its next Budget, the British Retail Consortium has urged.
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NewsGame to close 43 outlets
Video game retailer Game is to shut 18 stores and all its 25 Debenhams concessions as it reviews its property portfolio in the face of “tough market conditions in 2010”.
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NewsSuits You confident of profit breakthrough after CVA rescue
Speciality Retail Group chairman Peter Lucas has vowed that the struggling menswear retailer will make a profit in the year to January 2011, after it was rescued from administration by a company voluntary arrangement on Tuesday.
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AnalysisAndy Bond: Asda is ready for battle ahead
Asda hasn’t become ‘boring’ and is approaching 2010 in an aggressive mood with a raft of new initiatives, chief executive Andy Bond tells Jennifer Creevy
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Tile Depot gears up for expansion with team rejig
Tile specialist Tile Depot has revealed expansion plans as it reshuffles its management team.
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NewsTesco fires up Dobbies
Tesco-owned garden centre chain Dobbies is to unveil a new model store next week as part of ambitious plans to quadruple its number of shops to 100 over the next 10 years.